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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Add munmap events to perf
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 09:33 +0100, Eric B Munson wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 19:08 +0100, Eric B Munson wrote:
> > > > This patch adds a new software event for munmaps. It will allows
> > > > users to profile changes to address space. munmaps will be tracked
> > > > with mmaps.
> > >
> > > Why?
> > >
> >
> > It is going to be used by a tool that will model memory usage over the
> > lifetime of a process.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to use some tracepoints for that instead? I want
> to keep the sideband data to a minimum required to interpret the sample
> data, and you don't need unmap events for that.
>
>

Sure, I will get it moved to a tracepoint event instead.

--
Eric B Munson
IBM Linux Technology Center
ebmunson@us.ibm.com

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